www.andover.edu/intouch recalled Chuck, who came to PA as an upper from a small town in eastern Washington. “Otherwise, it was a pretty good place for a science nerd whose proudest achievement had been earning a Boy Scout badge in chemistry.” He’s also involved with several charitable organizations, among them the National Association for Down Syndrome, is a martial arts practitioner (he was judo club president our senior year), and spends “too darn much time” restoring an old Victorian house. His worldly advice, well worth heeding, is: “Buy the professional-quality tools. They’re worth it.” From Paris, Wade Saunders writes, “Next year will be my sixth and last year teaching sculpture for the Ville de Paris. Five of my sculptures were included in the annual invitational group show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters this spring, which was a very nice surprise. My studio practice advances slowly and I worry that, as a sculptor, I’m working in a domain that is ‘no longer supported,’ like certain digital operating systems. But I keep on keeping on since I don’t see an acceptable alternative. I’ll likely remain in France for the duration, since my wife’s family is here, my working situation would be hard to re-create in the U.S., and, after 24 years, Paris feels more like home than NYC. I mostly get around on a bike, so the traffic isn’t a problem.” And this arrived from Bill Robinson: “I am living in Zurich, Switzerland. Wife Nancy and I moved here three years ago for her job. She is an HR executive. I have retired. We enjoy Europe, Switzerland especially. I would be glad to reconnect with any classmates in the area or anyone passing through.” Catching up: Retired U.S. Army Col. Walton H. Walker II traveled to South Korea last year for ceremonies honoring his late grandfather and namesake, Gen. Walton H. Walker, who commanded the Eighth Army during the early stages of the Korean War. Accompanied by his brother, retired Lt. Col. Sam S. Walker III ’71, Buck, who lives in Fayetteville, N.C., said in an Army news account that the ceremony was “overwhelming,” given that South Koreans consider his grandfather “somewhat of a savior” for his wartime heroics. Meanwhile, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ford Fraker is currently serving as president of the Middle East Policy Council, having left his job as senior adviser with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Based in Washington, D.C., the council is a nonprofit organization focused on political, economic, security, and cultural issues affecting U.S. interests in the Middle East. As I type this, my daughter Emma ’14 is five days away from her PA commencement, 47 years to the day since we graduated. High on my list of fatherly emotions is gratitude toward the teachers, advisers, classmates, and others (including you, Dan Cunningham) who helped make her Andover experience so incredibly rewarding. And among my fondest wishes is that, half a century from now, she, too, considers herself a loyal and active alum.
Stay in Touch! Visit our “one-stop Web page” that consolidates all the various ways of connecting with Andover friends and classmates. At www.andover.edu/intouch, you can link to Alumni Directory, Andover’s Facebook page, Notable Alumni, and lots more. Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ● Visit
www.andover.edu/alumnidirectory, and log in to update your information
● E-mail ● Call
alumni-records@andover.edu
978-749-4287
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a note to: Alumni Records, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 01810-4161
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Karen Seaward 659 Kendall Ave. Palo Alto CA 94306 klseaward@att.net
[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Annette Davis Esteves steps down from her role as class secretary. The Academy is very grateful for her service. Karen Seaward is the new class secretary for the Abbot Class of 1968. Please send news and updates to her using the contact information above.]
PHILLIPS Gordon Baird 27 Fort Hill Ave. Gloucester MA 01930 978-283- 0390 Gordon@rampartsfarm.com
Ten long years of aging and enlightenment have passed since Bruce Hughes wrote this seminal look back at PA on April 16, 2004. For your enjoyment and remembrance, Part I: “Ave, fellow ‘bairdopotami!’
“The Ides of April having passed and ‘that which is Caesar’s’ having been rendered, I prostrate myself in random tribute before the gods of the Hill. “The ‘Great End and Real Business of Living’ appears thus in the Constitution of Phillips Academy, being the object that the founding fathers hoped ‘more especially to learn [sic] them.’ Query whether such awkward phrasing may evince the contribution of that northern [Exeter] rube, John Phillips, rather than his indisputably more accomplished, patriotic, and cosmopolitan nephew, Samuel Phillips, who subsequently served as first lieutenant governor under the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. “John Phillips’s diabolical experiment in rustic education—PEA—spawned [Boston real estate developer] Don Chiofaro, who departed the infested swamps of the Squamscott River for the comparatively more salubrious banks of the then-polluted Charles in 1964. Despised by such tranquil faculty souls as the late Ted Harrison ’38 because of a legendary brawl/riot that he ignited at the A-E hockey game several months prior to our matriculation, Chiofaro headed to the [Harvard] stadium in Allston, where he earned a football captaincy, All-Ivy recognition, and John’s Hall of Fame selection. He may have been a PG in the Everett-to-‘Meatville’ pipeline Andover | Fall 2014
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